🔒 Open source · runs 100% on your computer

Say it.
See it.

تكلّم… والباقي مُدوَّن

Modwen listens to your meetings in Arabic, English, or both in the same sentence, and turns them into notes, decisions and action items with real deadlines. No cloud. No account. Your voice never leaves your machine.

⇩ Download for macOS & Windows ▶ Watch it work
Gulf · Levantine · Egyptian · MSAWorks with Meet, Teams & in-personApache-2.0
Sprint sync · Google Meet REC 00:00
Decisions
✓ Ship the MVP on Thursday↗ 00:12
Action items
Mohammad · deliver the MVPبكرة
Lina · finish QAWednesday
Open questions
Who updates the client?↗ 00:31
🔒 Processed locally: Whisper + Qwen on this laptop
Private by design

Everything happens inside your machine.

Recording, transcription, speaker detection and the AI that writes your notes all run on your own computer. Modwen refuses to talk to any server that isn't localhost. That rule is in the code, not in a policy.

✓No cloud, no account, no telemetry. Nothing to sign up for, nothing phoning home.
✓Encrypted recordings. A separate AES-256 key for every meeting; delete the meeting and the key is gone.
✓Consent built in. A ready-made notice in Arabic and English, every time you press Start.
✓Even this page loads no fonts, trackers or scripts from anywhere else.
💻 Your computer
🎙Your meetingmic + system audio
〰️Whisperspeech → text
🧠Qwenlocal AI model
📝Your notesstored on your computer
The cloud never gets a single word.
Built for how we actually talk

Arabic, English, and everything in between.

Most meeting tools break when a sentence starts in Arabic and ends in English. Modwen was designed for exactly that.

«خلاص اتفقنا، بكرة تسليم الـ MVP»

Code-switching, natively

Whisper large-v3 with a per-sentence language rule keeps English terms in English and Arabic in Arabic: Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian and MSA.

بكرة→Oct 18Wednesday→Oct 21

Deadlines it really understands

"بكرة", "الخميس الجاي", "by end of day": resolved to real dates in your timezone. Invented deadlines are caught and dropped.

Ship on Thursday↗ 01:15

Notes that cite their source

Every decision and action item links to the exact moment it was said. Click it, and the transcript jumps there and plays the audio.

llama.cppOllamaLM StudiovLLM

Your AI, your choice

Let Modwen download and run Qwen for you with one click, or point it at any local OpenAI-compatible server you already use.

Google MeetTeamsIn-person

Any meeting, one click

It captures your mic and the meeting audio on macOS and Windows, with live captions while you talk, and is ready for 2-hour meetings.

🔔Notes ready
3 decisions · 5 action items

Stop. Get notified. Done.

Press Stop and keep working. A notification tells you when the summary, decisions, owners and open questions are ready.

Coming next

Voice in. Anything out.

Meetings are just the start. Next, Modwen turns what you say into what you need, live: slides, charts, documents.

🎙“Show me the gold price this year”

🎙«اعرض لي سعر الذهب لهذه السنة»
generated live

Gold, this year

monthly average · illustrative data
Get started

Up and running in three steps.

Download

Grab the latest release zip (about 0.5 MB) and unzip it anywhere.

Double-click

Modwen.command on macOS, Modwen.bat on Windows. The setup wizard picks models for your hardware and downloads them once.

Talk

Press Start in your next meeting. Press Stop. Read your notes.

# 1. download modwen-<version>.zip from Releases, unzip
# 2. first time only: right-click → Open
open Modwen.command
# the setup wizard opens in your browser: choose "Download Qwen for me"
# or connect your own local server, e.g. http://localhost:11434/v1 (Ollama)
Open source · Apache-2.0

Help Modwen understand every Arabic voice.

  • Record a short dialect sample (with consent): Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian, Maghrebi.
  • Test it on Windows and Linux, and tell us what breaks.
  • Build the voice → slides layer with us.
★ Star on GitHub Read the contributing guide →

Questions

Does anything really stay offline?

Yes. After the one-time model downloads, Modwen works with your internet turned off. AI endpoints must be localhost; anything else is refused in code.

What computer do I need?

16 GB of RAM minimum. Best: an Apple Silicon Mac with 32 GB, or a Windows PC with an NVIDIA GPU (12 GB+). Modwen detects your hardware and picks models that fit.

How good is the Arabic?

Transcription uses Whisper large-v3, which handles MSA well and Gulf, Levantine and Egyptian dialects increasingly well, including English words inside Arabic sentences. Summaries are best with Qwen3-8B or larger.

Can I use my own model?

Yes: any OpenAI-compatible server on your machine (llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM). Switching is one setting.

Is it free?

Free and open source under Apache-2.0. No accounts, no subscriptions, no usage limits.